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My wife was given a laptop. What is the absolute best way to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows XP? Laptop for wife + less time for her on my desktop = more gaming time for me. You see why I want it just right.
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Do you still have your windows installer disk? Because if you don't it's going to be a hella lot harder to reformat the drive. Win Cookies Awarded: 7 (bawwwwww)
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Ciao Time wrote:Do you still have your windows installer disk? Because if you don't it's going to be a hella lot harder to reformat the drive.
I do.
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I recently did this and it's pretty pain-free except for the waiting time.
You should just boot from the disk, and use the formatting protocol from the disk. The thing you should do is press 'D' for delete so your C: drive is wiped clean. Make sure all your partitions are unpartitioned. THen click 'C' for create a partition and then go ahead, and install windows on it.
I forgot what the names were exactly but it should be pretty intuitive.
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key sequence after booting: enter f8 esc d enter l up arrow enter MakeSureItsCharcoalGrilled wrote:
yes. please go fuck yoruself and die.
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it's ok. all computer components have clearly dotted lines along which you can cut* to make smaller.
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hax.sam.hall wrote:key sequence after booting:
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The best, but slow way of doing it is, low level formating and what it does is write zeros to the drive and make it like it was brand new and never used before. But the way the was stated before is a faster way of doing it. WDF?: I found a hot girl WDF?: Who lets me WDF?: Drink WDF?: Smoke WDF?: And play video games WDF?: ALL DAY shignog: and in the back door? WDF?: She's back door compatible WDF?: And it comes enabled by default WDF?: I need to teach sirus a lesson WDF?: Oh wait WDF?: That's called gay shignog: if there is a girl there its bi WDF?: lol WDF?: ok shignog: so its not so gay WDF?: Good enough
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delta62 wrote:
hax.sam.hall wrote:key sequence after booting:
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f8
esc
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up arrow
enter
I was going to post this exact same thing, but then I thought it was extremely nerdy.
i think ive typed that in almost a thousand times, no need to think anymore MakeSureItsCharcoalGrilled wrote:
yes. please go fuck yoruself and die.
MakeSureItsCharcoalGrilled wrote:
it's ok. all computer components have clearly dotted lines along which you can cut* to make smaller.
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Thanks for all the help. Went off like a champ. Up and running but I cannot connect to the internet. It has built in wireless and I have a Linksys router. I have tried setting it up with my thumb drive but when I put it back in my desktop it says something about an error and it might be my router that is preventing it from being set up. I knew when I got it that there was an issue about connecting to the internet but I figured it must be software based and reinstaling windows would fix it. You guys know more about this than I do. Should I just buy a card for the laptop and do it that way or am I missing something?
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IT sounds like you need a driver or the latest wireless software. Usually this comes in a CD. But I'm sure you can hunt for this online.
You have to find the make/model of your card, and hit that up on google. To find the model, you go to the device manager under System which is under Control Panel. Just type in the model in a search engine, like SYS 23-53-2424 and you should find the software.
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go to control panel. ->system ->hardware->device manager, do u see any yellow exclamation points of death? MakeSureItsCharcoalGrilled wrote:
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MakeSureItsCharcoalGrilled wrote:
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Boot XP cd: enter enter F8 enter D L enter enter follow on-screen shit. I read ALL your private messages.
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Ok all done. I had to take the card out of my laptop and put it in. I will get around to getting another one. Thanks for all your help.
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